“I deal with serious matters of politics. Me you ask? I don’t deal with such cases,” was his initial comment Alekou Alavanou when asked about him Alexis Tsipras and whether it is the new hope for the Left and the progressive world.

“We see that a part of the press, for some reasons that I have not understood, is trying to impose it on public opinion and this has been shown,” as he mentioned. “Right now we have to turn to politics. Don’t tell me about the Left and Mr. Tsipras, because Mr. Tsipras is not the Left.”

“Then we had 3 parties – ND, PASOK and unfortunately the old left SYRIZA – who literally knelt down to Germany and the EU forces and imposed a program on Greece, for which the working people spat blood. And now come the great powers in the media, who seek other avenues, to play their own game. But I’m not interested in that, I’m interested in the people playing their lives”, underlined Mr. Alavanos.

“A part of the world is in extreme difficulty. And now they are talking about whether someone will be Tsipras or Tsopras or Tsapras. On the left is whoever puts the card in their jacket? What does it matter that he took SYRIZA from me? I have made mistakes in my political choices. The Left was a force that tried to inspire the Greek people, it tried to criticize the great powers. This is why I deeply believe that we need to make a left turn. It was not a left turn either Tsipras or Dragasakis who were employees of the great power in Europe”.